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Tourists Bring Tar Syrup and Wooden Harps from their Trips

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Travel+Leisure magazine has published the list of the weirdest souvenirs brought by the tourists from all over the world. On the first place turned out to be the Finnish pine tar syrup: one can pour pan cakes and ice cream with it, or add it to the cocktails. The syrup costs about $8 and can be bought in the majority of stores.

The second place was given to a wooden harp, stylized like a biblical one; it can be bought in the Jerusalem House of Harrari store and costs $80. On the third place is Vietnamese vodka with a snake in the bottle, which has sedative and aphrodisiac effect ($25, is sold at the markets). The fourth place was given to the warm hat made of the fur of Alaskan musk ox ($170), and the fifth – to a bottle opener made of kangaroo’s paw (Australia, $26).

The KitKat chocolate wit the taste of green tea (Japan, $2), the attributes of the Soviet times (starting from cheep posters to the pile caps, for which tourists pay about $100), a bottle of the potable ocean water (Hawaii, from $2.50 to $6), a bottle of Screech rum (Canada, starting from $20), and the goods made of opossum wool (New Zealand, from $20 till $100) have also entered the list.

According to the poll held by the Travel Industry Association, 63% of the travelers think that the vacation could not be called successful without good shopping; at that 20% of them are ready to spend $500 and more for souvenirs. Though, the record of the tourist purchases was set up by a princess from Saudi Arabia: in a Las Vegas souvenir shop she had bought gifts to the amount of $30 thousand during 15 minutes.

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Article Submitted On: March 9, 2008